Comments on: Plans for Lost Girls

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Fri, 05 May 2006 20:04:21 +0000

“But how else are you going to get an Alan Moore signature?”

Why, by breaking into his house in the middle of the night, putting a gun to his head, and making him sign my copies of Promethea and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, of course.

By: John

John — Fri, 05 May 2006 12:47:38 +0000

Regarding intellectual property protection, two of the three characters are no longer protected, and the third depends on where the book is published. They could have some issues publishing it prior to the end of 2007 in the European Union due to Wendy. Most fan fiction involves characters who are quite a distance from the public domain.

By: Matthew Craig

Matthew Craig — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:23:29 +0000

Okay, nobody told me that Wendy Darling was going to be called “Mrs. Harold Potter.”

I’d better start saving.

//\Oo/\\

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:46:46 +0000

I suspect it’s too early to speculate on additional versions. $25 for an original hardcover graphic novel isn’t an outrageous price, judging by other products on the market, and this has 3. Top Shelf also has experience with $75 hardcovers, since that’s where the hardbound edition of Blankets was priced. They’re comparing it to Absolute Watchmen, which was also $75.

For mostly brand-new work by an acclaimed genius on a project that’s been talked about for decades, it doesn’t seem a suprising price point. As release gets closer, there should be discounts available from the usual suspects.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:38:50 +0000

three-volume slipcased hardcover [...] priced at $75

Damn, I was looking forward to this. Is there likely to be a more sanely-priced edition, or is this a situation like James Joyce’s Ulysses, where the extreme price proves that this is Serious Art and not porn for lower-class people to get off on?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 04 May 2006 10:39:40 +0000

But Watchmen has MALE nudity throughout — it’s completely different!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 04 May 2006 08:19:57 +0000

God forbid the readers drawn in by the graphic violence and mass murder of WATCHMEN be misled into reading sex!

*rolls eyes*

By: jingyang

jingyang — Thu, 04 May 2006 08:00:33 +0000

Oops. I realised I sounded rather crassly materialistic there. I meant having in the sense that it is thus avaliable to be reread at anytime. I think it will be one of those books that one reads across one’s life, and that will have different meanings as one ages.
Rereading V for Vendetta recently also had that same feeling.
Also, as a sidenote, since I am 39 it will be nice to read a comicbook that assumes that all its readers are intelligent literate responsible adults.

By: jingyang

jingyang — Thu, 04 May 2006 07:55:26 +0000

I’ve been looking forward to Lost Girls ever since I picked up the the two initial issues that were published years ago. I reread them again last week, and will be ordering the HC.
As a history major, I particularly enjoyed the evocation of time and place in Lost Girls too, and the implicit comparision with the present that every reader will make.
From the issues I have seen, even if the completed story turns out to be a ‘glorious failure’ it will still be worth having.